It does look like the boys were playing barbershop. When I had the Arab Tali here, he was sharing a small pasture with Dusty, my driving pony. I looked up on the hill just in time to see that Dusty had given Tali a tail trim. The long tail hair was lying in a heap on the ground between them. It took almost two years for Tali to have a tail. He really looked odd.
Nancy Applegate, OR